It looks like my traffic has more than doubled since the first week! From 5 visitors to 12 isn’t too much to get excited over though. I’ve gotten a little traffic from social media sites like Twitter and StumbleUpon, and the rest is from people typeing “Alex Mansfield” into Google (probably just other people named […]
Update: Version 0.3 is now available. I’ve been thinking for quite a while now about creating a blank WordPress theme as a starting point for myself as I develop new sites. I’ve gotten tired of stripping down full themes or reworking some of the other blank themes available. What I wanted was a theme with
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So to be honest, I don’t know the real advantages to using Feedburner to distribute your RSS feeds, but I’m about to find out. Care to learn with me? I’m going to sign up for a Feedburner account, set it up, play around with it, and if I don’t see the benefits, I’ll go do
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It’s been about a week and a half since I started this blog and I’m beginning to get spam comments as well as pingbacks from blogs that are just posting the first paragraph of my posts. Since I don’t want to have to moderate each individual comment, especially as the site grows, today I’m going
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And now for the topic of search engine optimization (SEO). As I mentioned last week, as I build this blog you’re reading I’ll write about everything I’m doing to it. Well today I’m working on improving its SEO. There internet is full of information on SEO and you could spend months or even years trying
At the time of this writing, I’m using the Thematic Theme Framwork. I’m sure I’ll build my own theme for this blog in time, but for the moment I’m concentrating on other things. The Thematic Theme Framwork has 13 widget ready areas, which is more than plenty. I’m just going to rearrainge my sidebar today,
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Technorati is an search engine specifically for blogs. It was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. It’s quite a site, and I’m claiming my blog there today. I’ll walk you though it here. 1. Sign up Go to http://technorati.com/account/signup/ and sign up for a Technorati account. It’s
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I started this blog one week ago and promised to write about everything I did in my attempt to build a successful blog. Well it’s a lot of work setting up a blog for success and so there was quite a bit going on. Consequently, I had a lot of writing to do in order